BOARD FOR STUDENTS
Serious Shortage In 1940 Expected
By adopting the report of a committee on boarding accommodation for students, which is expected to be very scarce next year, the Victoria College Council decided last night to take action with the object of making it easier for students to obtain accommodation. The report stated that in normal years the problem was difficult, as experience, with Weir House had shown, for residence there had, perforce, been in general limited to three years, but in 1940 the positiqn was likely to be impossible for many students unless further suitable accommodation were provided. The problem called urgently for solution. It had to be remembered that, in addition to teachers in training, young men and women were brought to Wellington for Government departments, many of whom attended the college. Weir House took 88 students, and Victoria House, the hostel for women on Wellington Terrace, 45. The difficulty in obtaining suitable lodgings had sent to other colleges students who desired to study in Wellington. The committee recommended that steps be taken to obtain a list of boarding-houses willing to take students, the number of students each would take, and the boarding rates, which information would be available to students when they come to Wellington; to see if it were possible to obtain the lease of furnished houses that would accommodate enough students to make the venture self-sup-porting; to obtain a list of smaller furnished houses for lease and make the information available to groups of students who might be prepared to lease them: and to give any support the council could to efforts being made by. the Women Students’ Hostel Society to increase the accommodation for women students. “What we want is another Mr. Weir,” remarked Mr. Justice Ostler during a brief discussion of the report.
The principal, Professor T. A. Hunter, said that the lists, having been once obtained, would be maintained permanently.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 10
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319BOARD FOR STUDENTS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 10
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